In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. They mandated de jureracial segregation in all public facilities in states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. Conditions for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those available to white Americans. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern states, while Northern segregation was generally de facto — patterns of housing segregation enforced by private covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory labor union practices.

Jim Crow laws mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated, as were federal workplaces, initiated in 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson, the first Southern president elected since 1856. By requiring candidates to submit photos, his administration practiced racial discrimination in hiring.

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States — though Alexander notes that the discrimination faced by African-American males is also prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is that "mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow."

Overview

Though the conventional point of view holds that discrimination has mostly ended with the civil rights movement reforms of the 1960s, Alexander posits that the U.S. criminal justice system uses the War on Drugs as a primary tool for enforcing traditional, as well as new, modes of discrimination and repression. These new modes of racism have led to not only the highest rate of incarceration in the world, but also an even greater imprisonment of African American men. Were present trends to continue, Alexander writes, the United States will imprison one-third of its African American population. When combined with the fact that whites are more likely to commit drug crimes than people of color, the issue becomes clear for Alexander: "The primary targets of [the penal system's] control can be defined largely by race."

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A remastered version of the album was released in 2012 to commemorate its tenth anniversary. It featured additional material including demo recordings of several tracks, the bonus songs previously available on international releases and a DVD of live performances and music videos.

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

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Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 1 of 2

Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 1 of 2

Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 1 of 2

Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

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Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 1 of 2

Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

published: 12 Mar 2010

Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx e...

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

published:12 Mar 2010

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Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

Michelle Alexander: Locked Out of the American Dream

After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in America and sparked a movement. In her book, Alexander explores how the war on drugs, "get-tough" sentencing policies and racism has created a caste system similar to that of our segregationist past.
Since then, Alexander has traveled the country to meet advocates and everyday Americans working to end mass incarceration in America — home to 25 percent of the world's prisoners, despite representing only five percent of the world's population.
She tells Bill that she has seen a grassroots movement brewing in communities across the country, "There are enormous victories that are being achieved precisely bec...

published: 20 Dec 2013

Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

Michelle Alexander on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

published: 11 Mar 2010

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

http://democracynow.org - As the Justice Department sheds new light on the racist criminal justice system in Ferguson, legal scholar Michelle Alexander looks at the historical roots of what she describes as "the new Jim Crow." From mass incarceration to police killings to the drug war, Alexander explores how the crisis is a nationwide issue facing communities of color. "Today we see millions of poor people and folks of color who are trapped, yet again, in a criminal justice system which are treating them like commodities, like people who are easily disposable," Alexander says. "We are not on the right path. … It's not about making minor reforms and plotting along in the same direction. No, its about mustering the courage to have a major reassessment of where we are as America, reckon with ...

Michelle Alexander: Race matters

Michelle Alexander, civil rights hero and author of "The New Jim Crow," accepts the ACLU's 2015 Dorsen Presidential Prize and describes how her time as an ACLU attorney awakened her to the realization that our criminal justice system isn’t simply infected with conscious and unconscious bias but, in fact, operates as a system of social control. Read more: https://aclum.org/uncategorized/michelle-alexander-race-matters-2/

published: 01 Jul 2015

Michelle Alexander: 'The New Jim Crow'

Our guest Michelle Alexander put the shocking statistic into the spotlight, that there are more African Americans under correctional control today in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. So at a time when the US has its first black president, how do we properly address a criminal justice system in which racism, in many respects, is still prevalent? Civil rights advocate Alexander joins the show.
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published: 06 Apr 2012

Michelle Alexander: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in America and sparked a movement. In her book, Alexander explores how the war on drugs, "get-tough" sentencing policies and racism has created a caste system similar to that of our segregationist past.
Since then, Alexander has traveled the country to meet advocates and everyday Americans working to end mass incarceration in America — home to 25 percent of the world's prisoners, despite representing only five percent of the world's population.
She tells Bill that she has seen a grassroots movement brewing in communities across the country, "There are enormous victories that are being achieved precisely because the people whom we have written off and viewed as disposable are reclaiming their voice, standing up, speaking out, organizing even as they struggle to survive."

After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in America and sparked a movement. In her book, Alexander explores how the war on drugs, "get-tough" sentencing policies and racism has created a caste system similar to that of our segregationist past.
Since then, Alexander has traveled the country to meet advocates and everyday Americans working to end mass incarceration in America — home to 25 percent of the world's prisoners, despite representing only five percent of the world's population.
She tells Bill that she has seen a grassroots movement brewing in communities across the country, "There are enormous victories that are being achieved precisely because the people whom we have written off and viewed as disposable are reclaiming their voice, standing up, speaking out, organizing even as they struggle to survive."

published:20 Dec 2013

views:118032

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Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

published:03 Sep 2016

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Michelle Alexander on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx e...

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

http://democracynow.org - As the Justice Department sheds new light on the racist criminal justice system in Ferguson, legal scholar Michelle Alexander looks at the historical roots of what she describes as "the new Jim Crow." From mass incarceration to police killings to the drug war, Alexander explores how the crisis is a nationwide issue facing communities of color. "Today we see millions of poor people and folks of color who are trapped, yet again, in a criminal justice system which are treating them like commodities, like people who are easily disposable," Alexander says. "We are not on the right path. … It's not about making minor reforms and plotting along in the same direction. No, its about mustering the courage to have a major reassessment of where we are as America, reckon with our racial history as well as our present, and build a broad-based movement rooted in the awareness of the dignity and humanity of us all."
This video is an excerpt of the Democracy Now! interview with Michelle Alexander. Watch the full 45-minute discussion here: http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/michelle_alexander
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http://democracynow.org - As the Justice Department sheds new light on the racist criminal justice system in Ferguson, legal scholar Michelle Alexander looks at the historical roots of what she describes as "the new Jim Crow." From mass incarceration to police killings to the drug war, Alexander explores how the crisis is a nationwide issue facing communities of color. "Today we see millions of poor people and folks of color who are trapped, yet again, in a criminal justice system which are treating them like commodities, like people who are easily disposable," Alexander says. "We are not on the right path. … It's not about making minor reforms and plotting along in the same direction. No, its about mustering the courage to have a major reassessment of where we are as America, reckon with our racial history as well as our present, and build a broad-based movement rooted in the awareness of the dignity and humanity of us all."
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Michelle Alexander, civil rights hero and author of "The New Jim Crow," accepts the ACLU's 2015 Dorsen Presidential Prize and describes how her time as an ACLU attorney awakened her to the realization that our criminal justice system isn’t simply infected with conscious and unconscious bias but, in fact, operates as a system of social control. Read more: https://aclum.org/uncategorized/michelle-alexander-race-matters-2/

Michelle Alexander, civil rights hero and author of "The New Jim Crow," accepts the ACLU's 2015 Dorsen Presidential Prize and describes how her time as an ACLU attorney awakened her to the realization that our criminal justice system isn’t simply infected with conscious and unconscious bias but, in fact, operates as a system of social control. Read more: https://aclum.org/uncategorized/michelle-alexander-race-matters-2/

Our guest Michelle Alexander put the shocking statistic into the spotlight, that there are more African Americans under correctional control today in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. So at a time when the US has its first black president, how do we properly address a criminal justice system in which racism, in many respects, is still prevalent? Civil rights advocate Alexander joins the show.
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Our guest Michelle Alexander put the shocking statistic into the spotlight, that there are more African Americans under correctional control today in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. So at a time when the US has its first black president, how do we properly address a criminal justice system in which racism, in many respects, is still prevalent? Civil rights advocate Alexander joins the show.
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Michelle Alexander: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

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Michelle Alexander Speaking to MATC Live 2014

The Prison Pop. is rising here in Milwaukee. As a matter of fact, we have the highest pris...

Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 1 of 2

Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

14:16

Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

Michelle Alexander: Locked Out of the American Dream

After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in America and sparked a movement. In her book, Alexander explores how the war on drugs, "get-tough" sentencing policies and racism has created a caste system similar to that of our segregationist past.
Since then, Alexander has traveled the country to meet advocates and everyday Americans working to end mass incarceration in America — home to 25 percent of the world's prisoners, despite representing only five percent of the world's population.
She tells Bill that she has seen a grassroots movement brewing in communities across the country, "There are enormous victories that are being achieved precisely because the people whom we have written off and viewed as disposable are reclaiming their voice, standing up, speaking out, organizing even as they struggle to survive."

14:16

Michelle Alexander: I Am 'Endorsing The Political Revolution' (Extended Interview) | All In | MSNBC

Flashback to March 15, 2010, Hour 2: Jesse Lee Peterson interviewed Michelle Alexander, author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." She's a former lawyer at the ACLU in San Jose, CA, former director of the "Racial JusticeProject," which launched the "Driving While Black or Brown" campaign in 1998 against "racial profiling" in California, prosecuting the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in a class-action lawsuit for "targeting" Latino & black drivers. She received a George Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005, which supported writing of "The New Jim Crow." She's been professor at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. She claims that Reagan's War on Drugs was really part of the "Southern Strategy" to convince working-class whites to vote Republican, using "racist" language about blacks & crime, but says "minor," "nonviolent" drug offenses are the reason for so many blacks being incarcerated today. She blames crime on high unemployment, which she blames on globalism, which took manufacturing jobs away from blacks, but refuses to acknowledge that Mexican illegal aliens also take jobs from blacks, and refuses to acknowledge that crime is a problem of morality not a problem of lack of jobs or education. She calls Jesse and a caller "racist" for pointing out that black out-of-wedlock births are a major moral problem in the black community. We have invited Michelle Alexander back on the show in recent years, but have never heard back.
Read Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "The Antidote: HealingAmerica from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood" http://www.amazon.com/Antidote-Healing-America-Poison-Victimhood/dp/1942475004/
Autographed copies at WND: http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Antidote-Healing-America-From-the-Poison-of-Hate-Blame-and-Victimhood-Hardcover
Jesse hosts THE FALLEN STATE, a TV talk show web series: http://www.thefallenstate.tv
The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show: "Uniting the races with truth instead of dividing them with lies." ListenLIVE http://JLPtalk.com M-F 6-9am PT/9-noon ET. Call-in: 1-888-775-3773. Facebook page: http://FB.com/JLPtalk
Tweet Jesse: http://Twitter.com/JLPTalk
Follow Jesse on Facebook: http://FB.com/JesseLeePeterson
Support Jesse's nonprofit, BOND: "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." – http://rebuildingtheman.com
DONATE to BOND: http://rebuildingtheman.com/donate-2/

10:53

Michelle Alexander on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that altho...

Michelle Alexander on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. [includes rush transcript]

23:39

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events ...

The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

http://democracynow.org - As the Justice Department sheds new light on the racist criminal justice system in Ferguson, legal scholar Michelle Alexander looks at the historical roots of what she describes as "the new Jim Crow." From mass incarceration to police killings to the drug war, Alexander explores how the crisis is a nationwide issue facing communities of color. "Today we see millions of poor people and folks of color who are trapped, yet again, in a criminal justice system which are treating them like commodities, like people who are easily disposable," Alexander says. "We are not on the right path. … It's not about making minor reforms and plotting along in the same direction. No, its about mustering the courage to have a major reassessment of where we are as America, reckon with our racial history as well as our present, and build a broad-based movement rooted in the awareness of the dignity and humanity of us all."
This video is an excerpt of the Democracy Now! interview with Michelle Alexander. Watch the full 45-minute discussion here: http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/michelle_alexander
Democracy Now!, is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on 1,300+ TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9am ET.
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Michelle Alexander: Race matters

Michelle Alexander, civil rights hero and author of "The New Jim Crow," accepts the ACLU's 2015 Dorsen Presidential Prize and describes how her time as an ACLU attorney awakened her to the realization that our criminal justice system isn’t simply infected with conscious and unconscious bias but, in fact, operates as a system of social control. Read more: https://aclum.org/uncategorized/michelle-alexander-race-matters-2/

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Michelle Alexander: 'The New Jim Crow'

Our guest Michelle Alexander put the shocking statistic into the spotlight, that there are...

Michelle Alexander: 'The New Jim Crow'

Our guest Michelle Alexander put the shocking statistic into the spotlight, that there are more African Americans under correctional control today in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. So at a time when the US has its first black president, how do we properly address a criminal justice system in which racism, in many respects, is still prevalent? Civil rights advocate Alexander joins the show.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TheAlyonaShow
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheAlyonaShow

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Michelle Alexander: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"